Crow's Nest
Summary: In September, the State Water Control Board has given preliminary approval to Stafford County's request for a $30 million loan to buy the Crow's Nest peninsula and protect it from development.
Date:
Locality: State
Category: Editorial

Stafford land-use lawyer Clark Leming handles most development cases in fast-growing county
Summary: Stafford land-use lawyer Clark Leming handles most development cases in fast-growing county
Date: 2/20/2005
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Area bracing for big-time growth
Summary: Tens of thousands of new residents are coming to the region in the not-so-distant future. Planning for that growth is a daunting task
Date: 2/12/2005
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Leaders challenged to juggle jobs, growth
Summary: Local officials get big-picture look at development trends in the Washington area
Date: 2/3/2005
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Stafford plan has lots of 'vision,' too little action
Summary: Stafford plan has lots of 'vision,' too little action
Date: 2/2/2005
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Public money to buy Crow's Nest? Where will it end?
Summary: Public money to buy Crow's Nest? Where will it end?
Date: 1/25/2005
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Think Crow's Nest has been saved? Wrong: The county must act
Summary: Stafford board must act to save Crow's Nest
Date: 1/18/2005
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Op-Ed

Saving Crow's Nest is an investment in the future
Summary: Saving Crow's Nest is an investment in the future
Date: 1/13/2005
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Murphy sets sights high
Summary: With year left in term, Virginia secretary of natural resources says money is tight, yet much remains to be done
Date: 1/11/2005
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Area fire and EMS spending is never quite enough
Summary: Area fire and EMS spending is never quite enough
Date: 1/6/2005
Locality: Fredericksburg
Category: Opinion:Letter

Area bracing for big-time growth
Summary: Tens of thousands of new residents are coming to the region in the not-so-distant future. Planning for that growth is a daunting task.
Date: 2/12/2005
Locality: Regional
Category: Editorial

Pristine Land Has Stafford Mulling Cost, Priorities
Summary: Virginia's announcement last month that it would lend Stafford County $30 million toward the purchase and protection of Crow's Nest, a vast forested peninsula that is one of the last individually owned tracts of undeveloped land in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, has failed to settle its future.
Date: 12/28/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Editorial

Land is not a renewable resource; we must protect it
Summary: Land is not a renewable resource; we must protect it
Date: 12/21/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Stafford debates developers' fees
Summary: Supervisors appear ready to create second impact-fee district in southeastern Stafford
Date: 12/8/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

Crow's Nest's hope
Summary: Let's hope a $30 million loan offer from the state starts the process of saving Crow's Nest.
Date: 12/8/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Editorial

State OKs loan for Crow's Nest
Summary: A state loan for Crow's Nest gets final approval.
Date: 12/4/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

State board backs loan to help buy Crow's Nest
Summary: State to loan Stafford County millions to buy key waterfront land
Date: 12/3/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

The city's riparian lands should stay wild, wooded
Summary: The city's riparian lands should stay wild, wooded
Date: 11/23/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Letter

Group aims for big goal
Summary: Friends of the Rappahannock plans to raise money to purchase riverfront land in Fredericksburg where group is headquartered.
Date: 11/2/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Stafford trifecta?
Summary: Stafford County: Why not adopt a PDR program?
Date: 11/1/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Editorial

Power relief for residents
Summary: Relief is in sight for Marlborough Point residents
Date: 10/20/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

Eagle rescued in Stafford dies
Summary: Bald eagle rescued in Stafford County dies, sent to federal lab in Wisconsin for autopsy By RUSTY DENNEN
Date: 9/21/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Trying to save a symbol
Summary: Injured eagle found in Stafford yard is rescued by Northern Virginia raptor group.
Date: 9/14/2004
Locality: Local
Category: Editorial

Future Staffordians will pay if county's Crow's Nest is developed
Summary: Don't risk the costs that will be incurred if Crow's Nest is developed. Help save it.
Date: 9/16/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Op-Ed

Why did Stafford nix Crow's Nest referendum?
Summary: Why did Stafford nix Crow's Nest referendum?
Date: 9/6/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Why did Stafford nix Crow's Nest referendum?
Summary: Why did Stafford nix Crow's Nest referendum?
Date: 9/6/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Stafford farm's zoning puzzling
Summary: Some residents question the zoning history of land the Silver Cos. is eyeing for an active-adult community.
Date: 9/4/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

Panel OKs loan for Crow's Nest
Summary: $30 million state loan approved for Stafford to buy Crow's Nest. Will it fly?
Date: 9/3/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

CROW'S NEST: Stafford request gets initial OK
Summary: Summary not available
Date: 9/3/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Wanted: Middlemen
Summary: Property rights vs. preservation: Can we find the balance locally?
Date: 8/20/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Editorial

No vote on Crow's Nest
Summary: Supervisors opt to wait for alternative funding to save peninsula
Date: 8/18/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

Here & there
Summary: Crow's Nest saved for now; and the 35th anniversary of the moon landing.
Date: 7/24/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Editorial

Crow's Nest must be saved--whatever the cost
Summary: Crow's Nest must be saved--whatever the cost
Date: 7/15/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Letter

Crow's Nest deal off
Summary: Toll Brothers' Crow's Nest option to expire; landowner's attorney says other builders putting offers on table
Date: 7/22/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

CROW'S NEST: Wildlife group threatens suit
Summary: Summary not available
Date: 7/9/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

New defender for Crow's Nest
Summary: A national environmental group has entered the discussion over the fate of Crow's Nest
Date: 7/9/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

Where the wild things are
Summary: There are a number of places in the Fredericksburg area where you can go and see wildlife. An osprey soars over its nest off the shore of Crow's Nest in Stafford County.
Date: 6/19/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Town and County:Columns

Stafford sets vote on Crow's Nest
Summary: Stafford supervisors move to put referendum on November ballot
Date: 5/19/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Board to debate Crow's Nest bonds
Summary: Vote set on bond referendum proposed to buy undeveloped peninsula
Date: 5/17/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

We all need to work to save sensitive nature areas
Summary: We all need to work to save sensitive nature areas
Date: 5/7/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Letter

Where are the advocates for Crow's Nest treasure?
Summary: Where are the advocates for Crow's Nest treasure?
Date: 5/5/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Crow's Nest name frays some feathers
Summary: Two grassroots groups have similar missions--and the same name. Here's their story.
Date: 5/2/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Developer eyeing Crows Nest
Summary: Toll Brothers signs contract to buy Stafford tract
Date: 4/29/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

Crow's Nest rezoning affirmed
Summary: Crow's Nest cannot take advantage of previously granted development rights, Stafford
Board of Zoning Appeals decides
Date: 4/29/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

All quiet on bond proposal
Summary: Stafford County Supervisor Kandy Hilliard's plan to urge a bond referendum to save
Crow's Nest went nowhere yesterday, on advice of the county attorney.
Date: 4/29/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

COMING TOMORROW•STAFFORD PANEL HEARS CROW'S NEST ZONING APPEAL
Summary: Summary not available
Date: 4/27/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Official backs bonds
Summary: Stafford supervisor calls for bond referendum to preserve Potomac Creek peninsula
Date: 4/20/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

SaveCrowsNest.com-
-Official PRESS RELEASE-
Date: 4/19/2004
SaveCrow'sNest.com is concerned about recent events regarding the potential sale of the 4,000 acre Crow's Nest peninsula in Stafford to a large scale home builder. Our organization is announcing immediate plans to launch a voter initiated petition placing a bond referendum on the November ballot. If approved by Stafford voters, the county would be authorized to purchase this environmentally sensitive wildlife habitat. It makes sound business sense to preserve this parcel as it will cost residents far less to save Crows Nest than if the area is developed into an Aquia Harbour sized subdivision off two-lane Brooke Road in rural Stafford. This preservation effort will also ensure that 20% or more of the existing by-right development in Stafford never happens.

While the movement to turn Crow's Nest into a nature preserve enjoys wide-spread public support, to-date, we have only heard three supervisors publicly express their commitment to support and vote for a resolution calling for a November 2004 park bond referendum. Since SaveCrow'sNest.com first announced the idea of a bond referendum on our web site on February 14, 2004, a majority of the Board of Supervisors have not voted to hold this special election placing this initiative on the ballot. The owners of Crow's Nest have entered into an agreement to sell this unique and historically significant piece of land to Toll Brothers. This mega-developer, which planned to construct homes at Valley Forge, recently announced plans to build "luxury" homes at Chancellorsville battlefield in Spotsylvania County, the historic site it now owns.

SaveCrow'sNest.com looks forward to working with the Board of Supervisors and other groups to approve a bond referendum. We believe that this is an appropriate use of bond indebtedness and is in the best short and long term financial interests of county taxpayers, our children, visitors, and future generations. We also believe that the selling price the owners might agree to will be substantially offset by other Federal, State and Local entities interested in contributing to the preservation of Crows Nest. Please contact Paul Milde at Savecrowsnest.com for additional information on how you can help save Crows Nest.

Destruction of Crow's Nest would be a disaster
Summary: Destruction of Crow's Nest would be a disaster
Date: 4/7/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Letter

Developer, Stafford supervisors have an opportunity
Summary: Developer, Stafford supervisors have an opportunity
Date: 4/1/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Letter

Tax hydra hisses at working Virginians; slay it with referendum
Summary: Summary not available
Date: 3/28/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Op-Ed

Save Crow's Nest for future generations
Summary: Save Crow's Nest for future generations
Date: 3/12/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Let's preserve scenic Crow's Nest, not fill developer's pockets
Summary: Let's preserve scenic Crow's Nest, not fill developer's pockets
Date: 3/8/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Here's a way to raise money for all kinds of preservation
Summary: Here's a way to raise money for all kinds of preservation
Date: 3/7/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Crow's Nest is a local treasure too precious for our area to lose
Summary: Crow's Nest is a local treasure too precious for our area to lose
Date: 3/7/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Developing lovely Crow's Nest is a 'lose-lose' proposition
Summary: Developing lovely Crow's Nest is a 'lose-lose' proposition
Date: 3/7/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

What sum of money is too high for a pristine wildlife area?
Summary: What sum of money is too high for a pristine wildlife area?
Date: 3/7/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Letter

Cluster development is still not a good fit for Crow's Nest
Summary: Cluster development is still not a good fit for Crow's Nest
Date: 3/5/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Supervisors mum on acquiring Crow’s Nest
Summary: Stafford board meets behind closed doors about wildlife haven up for development, but won’t talk publicly about its deliberations.
Date: 3/3/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Partisanship in preservation push
Summary: Preservation of Crow's Nest turns political at rally
Date: 2/29/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

Future of Crow's Nest may rest with voters
Summary: Some Stafford supervisors want a referendum on floating bonds to buy and preserve ecologically sensitive peninsula.
Date: 2/28/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

Two hikes, two worlds
Summary: Enjoying winter outings in Shenandoah National Park and Crow's Nest. Two hikes, two worlds
Date: 2/28/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Town and County:Columns

Why a bond referendum is the way to save bucolic Crow's Nest
Summary: A bond referendum is the best way to save Stafford's Crow's Nest peninsula
Date: 2/27/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Op-Ed

Saving Crow's Nest: Let's not throw away Stafford's crown jewel
Summary: Attempts to save Crow's Nest must not fail.
Date: 2/18/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Op-Ed

Bond issue sought to preserve Crow's Nest
Stafford asked to pursue selling special bonds to purchase Crow's Nest peninsula and protect its wildlife.
By RUSTY DENNEN and RUTH FINCH
Date published: 2/18/2004

Stafford ponders land swap
A Stafford County supervisor is advocating a land swap in an effort to save the environmentally fragile Crow's Nest peninsula from development.
By RUTH FINCH
Date published: 2/15/2004

Real action is needed if we are going to save Crow's Nest
The new Crow's Nest Megamall. Can you picture that?
By Paul Milde
Date published: 2/15/2004
Category: Letter: Op-Ed

With reasonable negotiations, a Crow's Nest deal can be reached
Summary: A Crow's Nest deal still could be reached.
Date: 2/12/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Op-Ed

Saving Crow's Nest
Summary: Preservation group plans community meetings
Date: 2/10/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Loss of Crow's Nest would worsen local life
Summary: Loss of Crow's Nest would worsen local life
Date: 1/31/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Crow's Nest peninsula must be saved at all costs
Summary: Crow's Nest peninsula must be saved at all costs
Date: 1/29/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Ecological treasures like Crow's Nest must be saved
Summary: Ecological treasures like Crow's Nest must be saved
Date: 1/25/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Group forms to save Crow's Nest
Summary: Grass-roots group forms to save Crow's Nest
Date: 1/22/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

'Irreplaceable' Crow's Nest must be preserved
Summary: 'Irreplaceable' Crow's Nest must be preserved
Date: 1/21/2004
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

Crow’s Nest Peninsula sought for housing, Conservation bid for Va. Site fails
Summary:
Date: 1/18/2004
Locality:
Category:

Housing plan pushed
Summary: Landowner wants to develop part of Crow's Nest, put rest in conservation easement
Date: 1/13/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Lost world
Summary: Saving Crow's Nest should be a priority for state and local governments
Date: 1/13/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Opinion:Editorial

Refuge proposal dies
Summary: Latest push to preserve Crow's Nest collapses; owner wants to revive development plans for the property
Date: 1/9/2004
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

State (Va.) Receives $1 Million Federal Grant for Land Purchase on Crow's Nest Peninsula
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Date: 12/10/2003

PARADISE LOST?
Summary: Aquia Landing area experiences new growth
Date: 9/10/2003
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

Protecting the environment
Summary: Brooke Point High School students donate money to Trust for Crow's Nest
Date: 8/20/2003
Locality: Stafford
Category: Local

The story behind area place names
Summary: Names that make sense, but not for the reason you think (How Crow's Nest name was given)
Date: 7/20/2003
Locality: Spotsylvania
Category: Local

Tax cut could help environment
Summary: Federal money could give a lift to efforts to preserve Crow's Nest in eastern Stafford County
Date: 6/7/2003
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Wildlife refuges hurting
Summary: Report: Nation's wildlife refuges, including those in Virginia, are short on funds.
Date: 3/14/2003
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Widewater park will drain Stafford's tax coffers
Summary: Widewater park will drain Stafford's tax coffers: (tax revenue that will be lost when the Crow's Nest property is purchased by the government and removed from the tax rolls of Stafford County)
Date: 2/6/2003
Locality: Stafford
Category: Opinion:Letter

'Interesting--though not very likable,' is the way biographer Peter Bridges describes Stafford County native John Moncure Daniel, who stirred up quite a bit of trouble as the South's most influential Civil War-era newspaper editor.
Summary: John Moncure Daniel’s life (one of the first owners of Crow's Nest Land before the Civil War)
Date: 1/11/2003
Locality: Regional
Category: Features:Town and County

Stafford to get state park
Summary: Crow's Nest will benefit from the $119 million bond issued in Nov. $5million earmarked to buy a first section.
Date: 1/7/2003
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

New book depicts Crow's Nest native
Summary: John Moncure Daniel, One prominent Virginian who lived at Crow's Nest is profiled in new book.
Date: 12/27/2002
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Funds earmarked for wildlife-refuge property purchase
Summary: Work is moving ahead on the purchase of first section of Crow's Nest.
Date: 12/27/2002
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Visions for Crow's Nest
Summary: Various plans for the Stafford waterfront property have emerged during the past three decades:
Date: 12/27/2002
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Briefs ; Bragg Hill Life Center to hold community meal ; Bill passes to help save Crow's Nest in Stafford
Summary: Briefs ; Bragg Hill Life Center to hold community meal ; Bill passes to help save Crow's Nest in Stafford
Date: 11/16/2002
Locality: Fredericksburg
Category: Local

Finishing parks' bond projects will take years
Summary: 5million earmarked for Crow's Nest
Date: 11/14/2002
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

College, park projects to get cash infusion
Summary: Virginia voters pass bond referendums by better than 2-to-1 margin.
Date: 11/6/2002
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Davis and Cantor
Summary: Her (House of Rep. Mrs.JO ANN DAVIS) work to protect the wild Crow's Nest peninsula in Stafford County
Date: 11/3/2002
Locality: Fredericksburg
Category: Opinion:Editorial

Silvers donate acreage
Summary: Summary not available
Date: 11/2/2002
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Bonds can save wildness
Summary: Bond Approval of Nov. 5 referendum would finance Virginia parks, natural areas.
Date: 10/28/2002
Locality: Regional
Category: Columns

State bonds could preserve pristine Crow's Nest State joins efforts to save the Crow's Nest peninsula in eastern Stafford County from development.
Summary: State joins efforts to save the Crow's Nest peninsula in eastern Stafford County from development.
Date: 10/19/2002
Locality: Regional
Category: Local

Sen. Warner pushes to preserve Crow's Nest
Summary: Efforts to preserve Crow's Nest get a lift from Sen. John Warner, and possibly, an endangered sturgeon.
Date: 10/2/2002
Locality: Regional
Category: Editorial

A Pristine Peninsula is in Peril in North Virginia; as development encroaches, U.S. declines to give Crow’s Nest protected status
Summary:
Date: 7/19/2002
Locality:
Category:

Trust asks Stafford to fund Crow's Nest's preservation
Summary: The Trust for Crow's Nest seeks $100,000 from Stafford County to save the peninsula, but supervisors defer action on the request.
Date: 3/6/2002
Locality: Local
Category: Editorial

Saving Crow's Nest
Summary: Crow's Nest, which looked for months to be a shoo-in for federal protection, now seems likely to be a casualty of changing federal budget priorities.
Date: 10/07/2001
Locality: Regional
Category: Editorial

Crow's Nest Outing: a Primordial Adventure, Not to Be Missed
Virginia Sierra Club
Date: 9/2001

Cost endangers push to preserve Crow's Nest
Summary: Turning Crow's Nest in Stafford County into a national wildlife refuge hits a snag.
Date: 9/28/2001
Locality: Regional
Category: Editorial

Draft Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Accokeek Creek
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
National Wildlife Refuge Published for Comment and Review
Date: 9/5/2000

Vigilance required for Virginia's wilderness forests
Virginia Native Plan Society
Date: 1/2000